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Cards do what Reds cannot in victorious home opener
Molina's three-run double sets tone as Wacha tosses six strong innings
ST. LOUIS -- Visiting Cincinnati did most of the threatening on Monday, putting at least one runner on base in every inning but one, advancing five of them into scoring position through the first five, and bringing the go-ahead run to the plate against the Cardinals' best reliever in the ninth.
It was the Cardinals, however, who tallied the big hits in their home opener.
The biggest of those came early, as Yadier Molina energized a sellout crowd with a first-inning, bases-clearing double off lefty Tony Cingrani. Despite all of the Reds' activity on the basepaths thereafter, Cincinnati never could catch up. Their lead later padded by some necessary insurance scoring in the seventh, the Cardinals treated the largest crowd (47,492) in Busch Stadium III history to a 5-3 victory.
"Huge crowd out there today, a lot of energy," winning pitcher Michael Wacha said afterward. "It's a lot of fun pitching in front of your home crowd, 40,000-plus of your home fans in there. I don't know who wouldn't thrive off those kinds of situations."
Those fans showed up early on Monday to enjoy the festivities that perennially precede the club's home opener. Last year, the Reds spoiled this day with a blowout win. Stingy pitching, particularly from Wacha, prevented such a repeat.
"He was good enough to get the win," Molina said. "The location wasn't that great, but he kept us in the game. ... This kid can control himself. There isn't anything that bothers him."
Wacha extended his career scoreless-innings streak against the Reds to 21 before allowing consecutive one-out doubles in the fifth. He minimized the damage there and went on to finish six innings while collecting his first win of the season. He threw just 82 pitches, but the stress throughout the effort was high.
Cincinnati's leadoff hitter reached in each of his first four innings. A pair of double plays helped thwart threats, as did two timely ground balls in the first inning after the speedy Billy Hamilton moved to third with one out and was caught in a rundown between third and home. Twice Wacha stranded runners at third by retiring Brandon Phillips.
"I felt good out there, though the command wasn't where I wanted it to be," Wacha said. "I felt like I was throwing out of the stretch the whole game today. There's definitely stuff I need to improve on with the command of my pitches and throw more strikes."
"He did a nice job of managing the baserunners," added Cincinnati manager Bryan Price." He used that overhand curveball a little bit more that we didn't see a great deal of in Cincinnati, and using his changeup."
The Cardinals gave their young right-hander some wiggle room with early offense against a pitcher they couldn't crack a week ago. Cingrani, 3-0 with a career 2.50 ERA against the Cardinals coming into the start, labored from the get-go.
After a leadoff single by Matt Carpenter, Peter Bourjos snapped an 0-for-13 start by dropping a single to center. Manager Mike Matheny had hoped to spark his center fielder's bat by moving him into the No. 2 hole for the first time this year.
It was the first of two hits Bourjos would have in five at-bats.
"It's nice to get one to fall in," Bourjos said. "And hopefully I can build from here and have some better at-bats."
"I think that first one just took a ton of weight off his shoulders," Matheny added. "Especially with a new team, for Peter to get going a little offensively, it's exactly what we were hoping for today."
Matt Holliday loaded the bases with a walk and, after Allen Craig went down swinging, Molina sent his three teammates home with a double to left. It was the second time in eight days that the Reds had been stung by Molina. His home run in Cincinnati on Opening Day was the only run scored that afternoon.
Molina is the early team leader with six RBIs.
"We had a huge momentum shift in the first, getting Hamilton on third base and being able to get out of that," Matheny said. "It could have been just as effective the opposite way if we don't get a run in, let alone Yadi coming up with a big hit to score three."
Cingrani lasted only three more innings and threw 88 pitches in total. The Cardinals then pounced on reliever Trevor Bell in the seventh, scoring twice on RBI hits by Holliday and Craig. Bourjos was in the middle of that rally, too, sparking it by skipping a double over a drawn-in Todd Frazier at third.
For Craig, the RBI hit snapped an 0-for-14 slide.
"That felt good," Craig said. "I'm just glad I could get back to my swing right there and drive in a run and get things going. The timing's a little off, but I continue to work on stuff as I always do. Things are going to turn around."
After an opportunity to pinch-hit for Wacha in the sixth led Matheny to pull the right-hander earlier than he normally would, he turned to his most trusted three relievers to close it. Carlos Martinez recorded five outs. Kevin Siegrist closed the eighth by retiring the left-handed-hitting Joey Votto.
Though there was no save situation, Matheny called upon Trevor Rosenthal -- who hadn't pitched since Thursday -- to cover the ninth. Rosenthal ended up working a little harder than desired. He walked two, and a pair of hits pulled Cincinnati closer. Rosenthal eventually closed the win by getting Hamilton, who represented the potential go-ahead run, to fly out on Rosenthal's 27th pitch.
"I was getting behind hitters and not getting ahead of them," Rosenthal said. "I had to make some pitches over the plate, and they kind of made me pay for it. I felt good, though. The focus was there, and I'll just keep moving along."


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In order to create a social media monitoring "dashboard," the iLibrarian (a.k.a. Ellyssa Kroski) describes how to use Protopage.com to create a private web page loaded with helpful widgets — RSS feeds, searches, alerts and more. Below is a picture of the resulting page:
Kroski's page includes widgets to watch for times when her library is mentioned in/on:
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To watch Facebook, the page's user needs to be logged-in to Facebook first, which means this page cannot be shared as easily as this librarian would desire. Still, it's a great idea, and kudos to her for sharing!
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Minhyong Kim's reply to a question John Baez once asked about the analogy between $\text{Spec } \mathbb{Z}$ and 3-manifolds contains the following snippet:
Finally, regarding the field with one element. I'm all for general theory building, but I think this is one area where having some definite problems in mind might help to focus ideas better. From this perspective, there are two things to look for in the theory of $\mathbb{F}_1$.
1) A theory of differentiation with respect to the ground field. A well-known consequence of such a theory could include an array of effective theorems in Diophantine geometry, like an effective Mordell conjecture or the ABC conjecture. Over function fields, the ability to differentiate with respect to the field of constants is responsible for the considerably stronger theorems of Mordell conjecture type [emphasis mine], and makes the ABC conjecture trivial.
What is the strongest such theorem? Does anyone have a reference? (A preliminary search led me to results that are too general for me to understand them. I'd prefer to just see effective bounds on the number of rational points on a curve of genus greater than 1 in the function field case.)


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Apple today fixed an iCloud bug that had turned OS X and iOS users' calendars into a gaudy range of colors that one frustrated customer labeled the "Barbie Dreamhouse" palette.
The fix to the problem, which Apple never publicly acknowledged, was noticed by OS X and iOS users earlier Wednesday.
"My calendar has also returned to normal colors...finally," wrote Irish27 in a message posted about 11:30 a.m. PT to an Apple support forum. "This was a real pain in the rear. I hope Apple has a handle on this and it won't be happening again!"
Apple today fixed the 'Barbie Dreamhouse' iCloud bug and restored customers' OS X and iOS first- and third-party calendars, including Fantastical for OS X, to their user-selected colors.
Others chimed in on that thread and others to say that their custom-colored calendars had also been restored to the desired hues.
Computerworld confirmed that the bug had been fixed, and that custom colors in Apple's own calendars, as well as several third-party apps, including Fantastical on iOS and BusyCal on OS X, had returned to normal.
As did a support representative from BusyCal. On Wednesday, the rep alerted Computerworld that BusyCal's help desk had started to receive reports from its customers that Apple had corrected the glitch. "We were hoping that would be the case, as [Apple] typically pushes out new iCloud builds on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning," the BusyCal support representative wrote in an email.
The "Barbie Dreamhouse" bug -- so described by one user because the flaw turned custom colors into garish pinks, blues and purples, the thematic colors of the popular toy -- first surfaced on Oct. 8.
In the OS X and iOS native Calendars, as well as many third-party alternatives, users can color code different "calendars," such as ones tagged as "work" or "home" or "travel" or "new project," to make events easier to pick out. But the iCloud snafu changed all users' custom color selections.
The same problem had struck OS X and iOS calendars in August, but was fixed on Apple's end a few days later.
Users were confused by the changes, but even more so when they restored their desired colors only to see them revert moments later to the Barbie palette when their apps synchronized with iCloud.
BusyCal said it received hundreds of emails about the problem last week, and several threads on Apple's support forums grew to nearly 100 complaints and were viewed by thousands of others.
Apple will overhaul its OS X Calendar when it launches Mavericks, the successor to Mountain Lion. Mavericks, which may go on sale as soon as Oct. 23, will boast a redesigned Calendar that resembles the native app in iOS 7.
Like the current version of BusyCal, Mavericks' Calendar will let users scroll through the timeline to show multiple weeks even when those weeks span a pair of months.
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Banfield The Pet Hospital® - Daly City
- Where
- 315 Gellert Blvd., Daly City , CA
- Call
- (650) 204-7272
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- Pets, Veterinarians
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Banfield is a convenient, affordable and wise choice for all of your Pets healthcare needs. We take an innovative and caring approach to healthcare that enables us to consistently provide Pets with the same level of care we want for ourselves. In keeping with our commitment to quality, each Banfield hospital is a full-service care facility with the equipment, expertise and resources necessary to perform virtually any medical procedure. Our hospitals are conveniently located adjacent to your neighborhood PetSmart® and offer Optimum Wellness Plans®, which are an affordable way to provide all of the recommended preventive care your Pet needs to live a longer, healthier life. Ask your hospital team about membership in the wellness plan thats right for you.


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After a long winter, prints and fresh colors dominate this season's fashion trends.
If you're anything like me you've been waiting all winter for spring to (finally) arrive. It's here! Sifting through the photos from this season's fashion shows in New York City, it can seem at first glance as though designers forgot that life continues after age 35. From the tween models to the not-always-forgiving fabrics, this particular Fashion Week didn't exactly celebrate style at any age. Upon closer inspection, though, many of the catwalk trends we see, are actually quite appropriate for women of all ages. So while the fashion industry is looking ahead to winter, we're taking a closer look at how to wear the best trends of the present season.
The first step for spring is to take inventory of what you have before you go shopping and don't be surprised if your kids (or even grandkids) want to raid your closet. Let's start out with some staples and work our way into incorporating new trends to stay stylish.
During my long career and my years on the road as a celebrity fashion director and stylist, the same three sartorial staples always came with me were (and still are) a crisp white button down collared shirt, a pair of jeans and little black dress. You can never go wrong with these items. I know you can all find one of these in your closet. They're always in style and they go with everything.
This spring you can dress them up or down depending on your mood. To dress up, add a pointy toe red heel, chunky silver jewelry and a printed or metallic clutch. If you're looking for a more casual look, go with a pair of pointy toe flats or cool flatbed sandal, keep the jewelry either way you go. If you have a lot to carry, replace the clutch with a chic (and unexpected) backpack.
Digging deeper into our closets, we should all be able to find a matching set, if it is printed even better. Don't be afraid to express yourself through prints, my favorite three are watercolor, floral and tropical. For colors think pink, tangerine, bold red and bring out all your silver jewelry, it's back in style, ladies. If prints aren't for you, classic black and white always looks sharp, but keeping this conservative ensemble fresh is…accessories! Add a floral scarf in this spring's top colors or a print, and you'll be ready for anything this season.
I do love spring, and your wardrobe should know it's spring, too.
I LOVE Blazers pair it with some light colored pants in salmon or white and you will look fabulous. It is also an easy way to give you a polished look and keep you warm on a chilly spring day or evening.


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November 23, 2011
Giving Thanks
Posted in Uncategorized by Tara Sharp
We would love to hear from you. What are you most thankful for this year? What traditions, new and old will you be celebrating?
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November 18, 2011
Milepost 40—The Journey Continues; Second Annual Windermere Foundation video Video contest Contest
Posted in Community by Tara Sharp
Back by popular demand, the Windermere Foundation is launching its second-annual video contest!
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November 11, 2011
Thank you veterans!
Posted in Uncategorized by Tara Sharp
All of us at Windermere would like to take a minute to express our gratitude to the military veterans who have served our country.
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November 09, 2011
Top 10 qualities to look for in an agent
Posted in Uncategorized by Tara Sharp
Buying a home is one of the most significant financial and emotional purchases of a person's life. That's why it is so important to find an agent that can not only help you navigate the home search process, but one who can also answer your questions and represent your needs from start to finish.
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November 03, 2011
Is Buying a Short Sale Right For You?
Posted in Buying and Selling by Windermere Guest Author
If you're shopping for a home, you may have noticed that a large number of the homes that are currently on the market are short sales. A short sale occurs when a homeowner owes a lender more than their home is worth, and the lender agrees to let the owner sell the home and accept less than what is owed.
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Benchmarks - Lifts
"If [an] athlete is serious about getting considerably stronger, he needs to incorporate at least one explosive exercise into his routine. And more is even better." - Bill Starr
The barbell lifts include both power lifting and olympic lifting and greatly emphasize the strength, power, and speed aspects (among others) of CrossFit's ten general physical skills. Proven competency in each of these lifts is a good indication of overall strength and explosiveness.
CrossFit Journal Articles
Read more about The Lifts.
The Burgener Warmup -Mike Burgener
The Stance -Mike Burgener
Clean and Jerk -Mike Burgener
Behind The Neck Split Jerk -Mike Burgener
The High Hang Snatch -Mike Burgener
Reviewing The Snatch -Mike Burgener
Receiving The Bar -Mike Burgener
Power of Dynamic Pulling Exercises -Bill Star


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Debden Park High School
History (2WGV)
PGCE with QTS full time with salary
- Accredited body
- Financial support
- Salary
- Qualification
PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 8 October 2019
- Date course starts
- September 2020
- Website
- http://www.scitt.tkat.org/
- About the course
- Interview process
- How school placements work
- Salary
- Financial support
- Requirements
- About the training provider
- Training with disabilities and other needs
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About the course
Trainees on a School Direct Salaried Programme will be employed at one of our partner schools. Please refer to our website for schools offering salaried places.
Our programme prepares trainees to be outstanding teachers through a high-quality teaching and learning experience. The programme supports trainees to meet the government expectations outlined in the 2012 Teachers' Standards. Impact on pupil progress is at the heart of our programme.
Trainees will be employed by their placement school and will work alongside good and outstanding teachers four days a week and attend a professional studies day one day a week at our Essex Training hub (Debden Park High School).
Salaried trainees may have responsibility for their own class and may be expected to teach a higher percentage of the teaching timetable compared to an unsalaried trainee.
The course begins with a two-week induction programme. This provides every trainee with the knowledge and skill-base to prepare them for their placement schools, where they will observe good and outstanding practice in preparation for teaching.
Our General Professional Studies programme combines a pedagogical approach to learning with practical strategies for use in the classroom. Trainees will gain experience from practising teachers as well as specialist speakers in behaviour management, special educational needs and health and well-being.
Trainees receive one-to-one mentor support throughout their training year. Mentors carry out weekly observations and set targets to enable trainees to develop their teaching. This is documented through a weekly journal to reflect on all aspects of the programme. Trainees receive dedicated subject and curriculum support by a lead subject specialist.
Trainees are asked to submit an evidence bundle to demonstrate their progress against the Teachers' Standards. The overall quality of trainees' teaching will be judged by the impact they have had on pupil progress and learning over time.
Trainees experience a short placement of the key stages either side of their training programme and in a specialist teaching provision.
Interview process
Candidates take part in a selection and recruitment process designed to assess their suitability to train to teach.
The aim of the interview process is for candidates to demonstrate why they have chosen teaching as a career and allow us to see their potential in the classroom setting.
If successful, candidates will be made a conditional offer of a place on our programme, subject to all course requirements being met.
How school placements work
Our ITT Provider arrange suitable school placements for the trainees. This enables us to ensure that we offer trainees a contrasting placement and a breadth of experience in their training year. Every effort is taken to place trainees in a school geographically convenient for them, without compromising their training needs.
Trainees will complete two placements. Their main placement (A) will be where they spend the majority of their training year. The second placement (B) will be for a minimum of four weeks in a contrast setting.
Our programme is full-time (term time only). Trainees spend four days a week in school and one day a week at our Essex Training Hub (Debden Park High School). Please note that trainees will be required to attend approximately four joint professional studies days throughout the training year held at our central training centre in Sidcup, Kent.
Trainees on the salaried route will be paid on an unqualified teachers' pay scale 1 or 2 (discretion of the school).
The cost of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) fee is paid for by the employing school.
The cost for the Post- Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) with 60 Masters Credits is £2,000 and is paid by the trainee.
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Happy Birthday Jesus
Today is Christmas otherwise known as the birth of Jesus, that day we call a birthday.
My children were excited about today as usual however this year was different.
We are currently in between houses, PCS, a military move, so we are spending some time with Zeus' family in Washington. The kids are not in their normal mode. Its odd but very fun to see the gears turning in their little heads. Zeus' mom is what I call a Bake-a-holic. She loves to bake and can be seen in her kitchen most hours of the day. So while, Nana, was baking this week Omega insisted they make cupcakes for Jesus. In our family as you know, you can not have a birthday without a cake. A cake is a must. No if, ands or buts. So he remembered that and down right insisted the cake or cakes be made. So all the grand kids help Nana, make and frost the birthday cup cakes.
After dinner we sang Jesus Happy Birthday as Omega insisted. Then we attempted to eat the cupcakes, but Omega had a fit because the top one was to be left for Jesus. One of his cousins, K, said he wasn't coming. Then he says yes he is, he is always here. There's no arguing with that, however he did not understand that the human Jesus would not be attending our birthday celebration for him. He really was upset that we were not planning to save to top cupcake. It was amazing to see the seriousness in which he took Jesus' birthday. He was all for Jesus. It was so stinkin cute but made me realize they are starting to understand what Dec. 25th is really all about. That made me proud and excited that I am and have been able to share the love of Jesus and real reason for the season with my children.
Merry Christmas to all and may your families experience the love of Jesus today and everyday.
Happy Birthday Jesus, we love you!!!
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Long haul … Mat Fitzgerald studied at a tertiary level for 10 years.UNIVERSITY students studying for an extra two years to receive "double degrees" are not being rewarded with a doubling of their job prospects, new research has found.
The disturbing results for double-degree graduates come at a difficult time in the jobs market for graduates generally, with low demand for their skills and burgeoning levels of Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) student loans.
Graduate Careers Australia research shows those completing double degrees, such as graduating with a degree in both arts and law, are only 4.4 per cent more likely to land a job than their single-degree counterparts.
The organisation that sells research about trends affecting graduates blames the scant reward for double degree students, who generally must meet higher entrance requirements for demanding subject loads, on flat demand for graduates generally.
"The employment market for new graduates is historically low," Bruce Guthrie, the research manager at Graduate Careers Australia, said.
Mat Fitzgerald has studied across three different faculties for a total of 10 years because he "assumed it was the only way to get a job".
But four tertiary qualifications later, Mr Fitzgerald, 30, has started his own business to get the career he originally wanted.
"I always thought that more study meant more qualifications and that equalled more opportunity. However, I was wrong," he said.
Mr Fitzgerald began his studies with a bachelor of behavioural science at La Trobe University. He then found some work in a call centre and discovered a desire to diversify his skills further in the business and marketing field. He then went on to complete a graduate certificate in business management, a diploma of marketing and a masters of marketing.
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Yesterday Corbin and I visited Brian's regular education classroom to teach his "typical" peers about autism, more about Brian himself, and how they can be a good friend to someone with autism.
Though I often refer to this as "The Autism Presentation", it really is a "Be a Kind Person Presentation". I've always felt that most hatred comes from ignorance and by teaching children about differences while they are young, we can nip that behavior in the bud.
The third graders were so excited to see us come in. Most of them have seen my presentation in prior years but they don't seem to tire of it. They all have so many excellent questions and stories to share about Brian.
In short Corbin and I remind them that just because Brian has a hard time making friends and doesn't approach them, it doesn't mean he doesn't want friends. We teach them to be patient and to be understanding. A huge part of the presentation is called "Walking in Brian's shoes" where we experiment with sensory overload and imagine what it would be like to not be able to say what we want or need.
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On the eve of the closing of the first ever US Social Forum in Atlanta, CODEPINK hosted a reception in the Peace and Justice Tent. We raised our glasses in a toast to the historic gathering and the wonderful activists from around the country. We belted out "Ain't gonna study war no more" and other peace songs in three-part harmony. We laughed raucously as we enjoyed each other's company. And we closed with a congo line that snaked out of the tent. Suddenly, while basking in the warmth of the camaraderie, I felt someone's hand smashing into my face. It was so quick I didn't have time to even close my eyes. With goo dripping down by face and my eyes burning, I realized I had been "pied." I invite you to see the photos and video that my attackers posted online. You'll see how our merrymaking was spoiled by not-so-merry pranksters guilty of a pie-by hit and run.
It's particularly odd that this group of pie-slingers chose the Social Forum for their attack. The first ever Social Forum in the United States was supposed to be a place to grow our movement, to build unity, to respect differences, to embrace each other. These Bay Area Bakers could have spent their time meeting Katrina survivors from the Gulf, homeless advocates from Atlanta, immigrant rights leaders from Chicago or attending some of the 900 workshops being offered. Instead they spent their time plotting an attack against someone with whom they probably agree on 90 percent of the issues. The organizers of the forum, seeing the incident as both an individual assault and an assault on the very principles of the forum, publicly denounced the attack during one of the main plenaries.
So, you might ask, why was I targeted? While the pie-throwers fled the scene of the crime, they did leave behind leaflets. I am, they say, "a self-appointed 'spokesperson' whose actions further the commodification of resistance and sabotage our movement's sustainability and credibility. This person's actions benefit the NGO Industrial Complex at the expense of real democracy and solidarity." That's a mouthful from these self-appointed critics, judges and prosecutors. But it actually sounds like good fodder for a healthy debate. Instead of a "pie-by", they could have dropped by any of the five open workshops where I was speaking and we could have had a great discussion. Or they could have easily found me at the Global Exchange or CODEPINK tables where I was hanging out for days, chatting with anyone who wanted to talk.
But the pie-flingers were not interested in fruitful dialogue, but tasteless condemnations. Their leaflet went on to say:
1. I sided with police and municipal authorities against direct actions performed at the World Trade Organization protests of 1999 (Truth: I disagreed with the tactic of smashing windows and helped gather an activist clean-up crew to show our goodwill to the people of Seattle. And after eight years, this grudge is mighty stale!)
2. My organization Global Exchange hordes funds raised for community organizations in Guatemala (Huh? I have no idea what this one means. We promote fair trade and have helped channel millions of dollars to producers all over the world, including Guatemala. See www.globalexchange.org)
3. Global Exchange solicited the economic dependency of residents in Cuba and then abandoned the project, pushing the Cuban participants deeper into poverty. (Truth: We have organized hundreds of people-to-people delegations to Cuba, and even with the Bush administration coming down on us, we still take groups to Cuba to build ties of friendship.)
4. I publicly refused to endorse a call for Israel to unconditionally withdraw from Southern Lebanon in the 2006 war. (Truth: I always called for unconditional withdrawal, and even went to Lebanon in the midst of the bombing to show my commitment to an immediate ceasefire.)
Having been involved in the movement for social justice for almost 40 years now, I've developed thick skin after facing so many attacks from hateful, violent people. Whenever I appear on TV shows such as Hannity and Colmes or Bill O'Reilly, I receive vicious messages on my phone and threatening emails that scare my children and anger my husband with their variations on the theme of "Die, you ugly, communist, lesbian, American-hating bitch." I have learned over the years that attacks come with the territory-but it does take me by surprise (and hurt the most) when the attacks come from the left instead of the right, from people who are supposed to be your allies.
Years back, I remember reading with amusement about the Biotic Baking Brigade that roamed the world flinging pies in the face of the "upper crust"-people deemed responsible for corporate crimes. These included the CEOs of Monsanto, Novartis, Chevron and ENRON. In fact, I had organized a protest against ENRON CEO Jeffrey Skilling in San Francisco when a young woman in the audience threw a pie in his face. It was an act of "speaking pie to power," she said.
But while a pie in the face of the ENRON crook might seem like just desserts, other targets the brigade chose were half-baked. Ralph Nader was pied while at a San Francisco press conference supporting a Green Party candidate for Governor. Sierra Club Director Carl Pope was pied for supposedly supporting legislation that would increase logging in California-a bill the Sierra Club actually opposed. And then all sorts of random people were pied-filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, artist Andy Warhol, singer Kenny Rogers, Jimmy Carter's brother Billy. With no quality control, the Biotic Baking Brigade had become the Myopic Baking Brigade.
The problem was not just who was getting creamed, but the creaming itself. Sure, pie-throwing can be good natured-like at a fundraiser at a county fair or a college food fight. It can also be hilarious, like the slapstick comedy of the Three Stooges or Charley Chaplin. But when done with malice, it can easily turn sour. I remember a nasty episode when San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was pied by three people who held him responsible for policies that created more homelessness. One of the culprits was our friend Justin Gross. Justin was a sweet, gentle soul who cooked us vegan lunches once a week at Global Exchange and worked with Food Not Bombs. The mayor was hurt in the assault, and when the "piers" were tackled to the ground by security, one of them broke her clavicle. Justin was sentenced to six months in jail for battery.
When Sierra Club Director Carl Pope was pied, the tofu in the cream didn't mollify him. "The pie has nothing to do with it," Pope said bitterly. "It's the fist behind the pie. It's like being slugged."
Now I know exactly what he meant. I often thought that if I was pied, I'd laugh it off. Big deal. A bit of cream in the face. But it felt like a punch in the sucker. It felt very violent. In fact, I am still shell-shocked. When people I don't know approach me to say hello, I flinch and brace myself for a beating.
In the wake of the assault with a high-caloric weapon, I could have followed the footsteps of Willie Brown or Ann Coulter by pressing charges. I'd have a great case, because I have on videotape both the successful pieing and an unsuccessful and even more violent attempt hours earlier. But I wouldn't do that. Why? I actually feel sorry for people who harbor so much resentment and come from a place of such anger. Perhaps these pie-throwers are wounded people who lack the essential ingredients of a fulfilling life-a supportive family and community that provides a healthy dosage of love.
I feel the love from my wonderful husband and two daughters. I feel the love from my colleagues at Global Exchange, where we've built an organization with 40 staff whose lives are dedicated to transforming the world for the better. I feel it from my sisters at CODEPINK, which now has 150,000 supporters, 250 local chapters, and a house in DC that serves as a hub of anti-war activism and a place that empowers new activists every day.
That's my recipe for not only a healthy life, but my contribution to changing our world. I ask the pie-throwers, what's yours?
Instead of packing a punch, why not come over for lunch? Let's swap our recipes for change. And I'd be happy to bake you the dessert of your choice. May I suggest humble pie?


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Today was a very exciting day in my little world. I've never been lucky enough to go to any of the fashion weeks but today the fashion world came to me! Murkus Lupfer was in Edinburgh at Harvey Nichols showing his spring summer collection to some of his customers. It was great to hear Markus talking about his inspiration for the collection whilst seeing the models wearing his beautiful clothes.
I was really interested in all the techniques that he used in creating his designs. In the printed dress above he told us how he first made the dress with the pattern embroidered on it and then photographed that dress. Once he had the photograph he then digitally printed on to the silk which created a beautiful effect. We also heard about how all his embellishments are hand swen which in my eyes definitely justifies the price of his garments. I was really tempted to buy something today after hearing all about the processes involved in the design but I knew my credit card wouldn't thank me so I had to pass.
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In 2015, at Rhizome's Seven on Seven event at the New Museum, Poitras and Crawford were invited to give the opening keynote address. They had an on-stage conversation that spanned the cultural imaginaries of surveillance, affect and emotion, and the physical effects of producing work on surveillance. The week beforehand, Poitras and Crawford travelled to China to observe the collaboration between Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum - one of the collaborations for Seven on Seven. Laura created a short film based on this time in Weiwei's studio, called The Art of Dissent. This transcript has been edited and some topics have been expanded upon by the authors. It was originally published in print form by the cyberfeminist group Deep Lab as part of their residency at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival in May. This layout is based on the zine's design, by Ingrid Burrington and Maral Pourkazemi.
Kate Crawford: It's a pleasure to be here with you, particularly on a year when Seven on Seven is focused on surveillance and affect in art and technology. I was thinking about CITIZENFOUR and the whole trilogy of your films since 2001. You've managed to take this invisible, pervasive infrastructure of surveillance – what the sociologists Haggerty and Ericsson call the "surveillant assemblage" – and you've made it feel material and emotional. In your work we see how surveillance functions in a political and technical sense, but it also becomes something that we really care about. It's personal.
You've been asked many questions over the past year about the legal and policy implications of mass surveillance. But I want to do something else; I want to ask you about the cultural and artistic representations of surveillance and how they've affected you. Are there particular films, books and art works you've encountered over your life that have changed the way you think about surveillance?
Laura Poitras: Yes, there are many. When I first decided I was going to make a film on surveillance it was before any whistleblowers had come forward. It was before Snowden. It was also before the "NSA Four" – Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis – went public in 2011. I talked to a lot of people and everybody said it's a bad idea to make a documentary film about surveillance because it is hard to visualize. It is both abstract and very much a mental state. When you think about the great literature and films about surveillance, most are fictionalized. The work that had the most influence on me is Orwell's 1984. I read it first when I was a teenager and it was etched into my memory. I can't think of another book I've had such vivid memories of. I re-read it in the winter of 2013 when Edward Snowden first started emailing me. I was also reading Cory Doctorow's Homeland. They were a perfect pair to read because of how they capture themes of surveillance, paranoia, and the state.